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Kathryn Rw Reese

@kathrynreese.bsky.social
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Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology. Poems in Crowstep, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks & Wigleaf. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway Journal 🏳️‍🌈🌊💚

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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social for taking my perimenopausal plaint. And thank you @summermoth.bsky.social for helping me with the title for this piece! 🧡🧡🧡 “The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on…” trashcatlit.com/maybe-there-...
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Maybe There is Nothing That I Can Do
Sumitra Singam Listen to Sumitra read her prose poem The Lulu Lemon women talk of Romeo and Juliet between sets of bicep curls because Lovefool comes on over the speakers and they remember studying…
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Honoured to have my piece “The tale of a dining table as told to itself” nominated for Best of the Net 💚 You can read it here: www.claudineliterary.com/kathrynreese
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Kathryn Reese | The tale of the dining table as told to itself
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I love this issue. There are fab poems & incredible art…so many ways we can capture not just image or self but also the wonderfully messy stuff of relationship. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social can’t wait for another cup of chai with you…is it time to start searching for my cardamom again yet?
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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's finally the 12th! Which means, Issue 3 is LIVE, folx! 23 fabulous pieces of fiction and non-fiction. Come on in, grab a beanbag, your beverage of choice, and read! And if any of the pieces speak to you, let the author know! And so, here we go! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/issue3
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ISSUE 3 | Litnamjooning
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Super thrilled that my poem about neurodiverse breakfast joy has been nominated for Best of the Net! Read it here: templeinacity.com/poetry-kathr... Thanks @templeinacity.bsky.social
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Temple in a City literary journal
Stim, a poem by poet Kathryn Reese. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Late to the party but 👀💚
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This month's #FromTheCoursesMouth features @smokelong.bsky.social @sfmontgomery.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social fromthecoursesmouth.substack.com/p/september-...
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September /October 26: Upcoming courses, workshops & events
Here’s what’s coming up from your your friendly neighbourhood freelancers, lit mags and awesome independents over the next couple of months.
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Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A slice of life that made me who I am today! Love writing micromemoirs! Thank you @fiveminutelit.bsky.social for selecting me for this honor!
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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"The Hindjew" by @ninamiller.bsky.social an Indian-American physician, epee fencer & creative. She loves writing competitions & nursing cups of chai. ninamillerwrites.com substack.com/@ninamiller. "The Hindjew" is the Editor's Pick for our A TIME YOU HAD TO ACT LIKE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT contest.
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our Big 10th Issue is upon us & we’d like to introduce you to the theme… A Day In The Life. …like The Beatles’ song? YES! We’re interested in the ways in which art like this exists in the world — with such wildly different fragments & contrasting energies not just coming together but over-
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Check out these amazing 🔥🔥🔥 works
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So all Stanchion books & magazine issues are buy 2 get 1 free, forever. No code needed. Just put 3 things in your cart & 1 will be free. I'm still as committed as ever to making indie lit more affordable for everyone, while still paying authors & not charging fees. The way it should be. And is, here
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Stoked that this little story has been nominated for Best Small Fictions: pitheadchapel.com/birthright-b... Thanks to the team at Pithead & congrats to the other nominees
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birthright/bloodline
Kathryn Reese   When you were born, I was sent away to the witchdoctor/my grandma’s house/the place where they teach babies to sleep. You, a bundle in my arms/a portacot/still in my belly. Me, a pr…
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Poets…about those musicians…
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“From outside earth is too bright to look at” @eireneeleni.bsky.social in Electric Pink
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Anyway, this isn’t the best murder ballad” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 in Lost Balloon
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thanks @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for nominating Storm Season for BOTN 💚 You can read Storm Season here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... It’s about loneliness and going home
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Storm Season by Kathryn Reese
The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Gloss. An old word for tongue, or speech. The girl thinks she should go back to making glosses, little pencil notes in the margin of ancient texts" A gem from @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Storm Season by Kathryn Reese
The girl with a forest in her chest has been without a love so long she has forgotten what it is to hold hands, so tonight she runs a finger round the outline of her own palm: thumbpad, lifeline, wris...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"I know you want me to sing that here, in the translucent shell of my body, live the soft sighs of angels." Do read this beautifully lyrical marvel from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social picked by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social as the winner of the @welkinpress.bsky.social Body Prize.
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Stoked to have a poem in Glass today: www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html - there’s an audio version too.
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Kathryn Reese | Hush | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Yeah, I know there’s therapy but there’s also these guys.
Two young steer in a very green paddock. One is black, one grey-brown. Both have wet noses and deep interest in their eyes.
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“you've been so much/on your knees./Crumpled, your skirts between/the girl's feet” more brilliance from @kathrynreese.bsky.social in The Paddler 🧡🧡🧡
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#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Have a read of the next poem in our LINEAGE series — 'actually very sparkly when not always ill' by Jovy Lotus, also featuring artwork by the author titled ‘brain fog’. Head to: enbylife.net/2026/08/04/a... Catch up on the full Lineage series so far at enbylife.net/tag/lineage/
Artwork of chaotic swirls and lines drawn in black pen. Black text on transparent coloured backgrounds reads, ‘disability disappearing / an impossibility materializing / everything captive inside is / breaking ground on the outside.’ 'actually very sparkly when not always ill' by Jovy Lotus.’
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have 3 poems in The Paddler, here’s one: an ekphrastic I wrote after seeing a portrait of a local midwife at a local gallery. Go grab your copy of this issue here paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-... @paddlerpress.bsky.social
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Nurse Bertha Schmidtke of Ambleside
Maternity Home
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After the 2019 textile artwork by Deb Twining.
Your portrait, projected on a curtain.
Draping to the floor. Stitches: silk.
Your figure, over seams, a little fuller
than you were ~
always hovering, as if
there were a window, a drop
of sun to bleach the cloth across
your bursting back ~
you’ve been so much
on your knees. Crumpled, your skirts between
the girl’s feet, your hands a basket, receiving
or holding cloth to torn flesh
and later, in the gas-lit dim, your
eyes straining at your needle, working the silk
so nothing creases while newborn cries
billow in from the next room ~
and now you are silk
preserved away from sun and draughts. You
were always on quiet nights, sure
you would be summoned, if you closed
your eyes. You don’t close your eyes.
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The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Appearing at some point today... ... the SHORTLISTS for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!!!! Who's excited???!!!!
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“These lips feel like a drought riverbed. Have they ever been kissed?” “There was a girl, maybe, it was me, maybe.” @kathrynreese.bsky.social and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social www.icebreakerslit.com/read/memory-...
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Memory is a reluctant meadow — Icebreakers Lit
fiction by Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It’s a very publish-y week this week! Here’s a fiction @pleomorphic2.bsky.social & I dreamed up, in the always collaborative @icebreakerslit.bsky.social I had so much fun writing this, so I hope you enjoy reading it! www.icebreakerslit.com/read/memory-...
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Memory is a reluctant meadow — Icebreakers Lit
fiction by Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam
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Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🪿Silly Summer Web Series🪿 "I can’t sleep with you because Chen Chen is my emergency contact." I think the quote says more than I ever could! Love this one by @kathrynreese.bsky.social Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/silly-summer...
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“I’m not on a diet, I’m just not sure where to place myself between the pickled octopus and spiced lamb.” This hilarious and heartfelt piece by @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @sillygoosepress.bsky.social 🧡🏳️‍🌈🥰
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
So…I have a poem out today: sillygoosepress.com/silly-summer... It’s after @chenchenwrites.bsky.social, whose collection “Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency” resonated so deeply with my lonely queer soul, and companioned me through the times
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I can’t sleep with you because you have an incompatible phone charger — SillyGoosePress
after Chen Chen I can’t sleep with you because I don’t have my hairbrush and sharing a brush is different to sharing pillows. I can’t sleep with you because getting to work in the morning would ...
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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🗨️ e(i #9: Collaboration is live! 🗨️ Collaboration is a testament to community & creative experimentation! It's free to read, download & share online: buff.ly/ryyERAn Print copy available for purchase: buff.ly/PjaIlBn & vote for your fave piece for our Readers' Choice Award! buff.ly/9DlHF33 ⬇️
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"Here is water. Here is the edge. My finger tracing the seam of gold over your shoulder, your neckline, your chest: here is where light falls." Just beautiful, the imagery and words that these two conjure. @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @the-engine-idling.bsky.social ❤️💙💜🧡
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Here is where light falls…” I hope you enjoy this collab @pleomorphic2.bsky.social & I made for the wonderful @the-engine-idling.bsky.social collab issue. Also: write something with someone, make a place for the light to fall between you.
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Open for micro, flash and poetry until July 15 templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Lads, chuffed to have a collab poem with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in our favourite home @the-engine-idling.bsky.social’s 🔥 Collab issue. Hope you’ll give it a read 🧡🏳️‍🌈 static1.squarespace.com/static/650c3...
Pic of our poem in The Engine Idling Issue 9
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
If we want publications that print & pay & don't charge fees, don't beg for donations + aren't align with universities & their oft-problematic policies to stay afloat, we must value them enough to want to submit to them AND buy them from time to time. That's the only way any of this works.
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Friends, WHAT a day. I have two CNF pieces out today in The Sandy River Review. They’re both about my dear friend Jessica who passed 18 months ago. I’d love it if you gave them a read 🧡🙏🏾💔 sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/h... sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/s...
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Sugars by Sumitra Singam
Your mother and brother don’t know what to do with your sugars. On a summer’s evening, the air heavy with your loss, they bring them to me in a box. Icing sugar in a Tupperware, as if you’d packed …
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Anyone interested in a poem-a-day thing with award winning poet @kathrynreese.bsky.social and roses-are-red-violets-are-blue Me? Very chilled, google doc, asynchronous, just so we get back into the swing of things
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Does anyone want to join @pleomorphic2.bsky.social & I in a write-a-poem-a-day practice for a month? Starting asap? I’m thinking we can use a private google doc so we can read/comment on* each other’s work. Comment or message me if you’re interested. I’ll add some more details in comments…
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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy! The anthology is only £2.99 on kindle. Every penny allows us to carry on doing what we are doing. All NFFD folk work for free.
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Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
⬇️⬇️⬇️ Open until July 15.
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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Announcing….. our 2026 Mythic Picnic fiction winner 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟(read this story if you haven’t yet!)
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"...my skin sloughs off, my own name silt in the riverbed." Such lyricism.
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"I am carried with the flood, fingernails crescents of mud, swept into sidestreams that do not bear any name, and my skin sloughs off, my own name silt in the riverbed." Lyrical and lush flash from @kathrynreese.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - oh those driftwood babies 💔
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“… grant me this wish: turn down the cuffs, slide your fingers along the embroidery, and walk outside.” @mynachang.bsky.social in Commuter Lit commuterlit.com/2026/06/mond...
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MONDAY: To My American Daughter-in-law
FLASH FICTION WEEK 2026First-place winner BY MYNA CHANG Copyright is held by the author. I KNOW the task of sorting my belongings will fall to you. I hope the novelty of this old jacket has enticed…
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Had such fun choosing 10 flash for @mattkendrick.bsky.social #Mondettes. In honour of summer & playing hooky, I've chosen #games as my theme. Shout out to @erinvachon.bsky.social for sending me down this theme with their prompts for @smokelong.bsky.social Bonus: 3 witing prompts!
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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Collab flash with my person @pleomorphic2.bsky.social For the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social erosion prompt, i’n which every sentence has fewer words than the last.
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Pam Makin (she/her) @pamthepoet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Dream Team! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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